~Anne~

Thanks Charles. Raz a little rescue I had, Mollie, also had a very narrow trachea. With her, long term respiratory distress actually caused her to develop fluid on the lungs. When she came into my rescue she was on fluid tablets for an 'assumed' heart condition. I took her off to the Specialist Hospital at Nth Ryde and it turned out it was all part of brachy syndrome. We operated on her palate, larayngeal saccules and nares and she was great after that.... sadly, she passed away only 6 months after the op with pancreatic cancer though.

I'd be checking out the possibility of a collapsing trachea. If that is the case, then she will go down hill the minute the heat hits as well and she will not be able to breathe. She will effectively be starved of oxygen. Get her to another Vet or take her back to the same Vet and tell him to check the trachea, palate and laryngeal saccules and do it without delay. Check out this site for some furhter info to help you. She needs to get back to a Vet and she needs to be examined further. Not all dogs do the coughing first. Brachy Syndrome - Trachea

Where can pure virgin coconut oil be purchased?

Interesting. I'd like to hear more. I've never thought of adding cocnut oil... in fact, I didn't even realsie it was actually edible.

A harness should be fine. I prefer crates for my lot but they are much smaller dogs. I tried mine in harness and they managed to always tangle themselves up so I went back to crates.

Absolutely! What were they thinking!

These threads were a bad omen for me. My daughter has just phoned me to say Monte is in the middle of a seizure cluster at the moment. It is so hard when you are not there with them.

RIP dawggie. :nahnah: Once they go into status (status epilepticus = continual non stop seizure) they really have a really poor long term prognosis if they come out of it.

Just to clear up a misconception, you can't test for epilepsy. You can run tests on a dog that has seizures to rule out all other causes for the seizures though. If there are no other causes found for the seizures, such as toxins, disease, injury, then it is called epilepsy.

What you are describing sounds like a typical tonic/clonic seizure. The running around manic part is probably all post-ictal behaviour. My epileptic Pug runs manic too. I usually hold him though as he bangs into walls and furniture and is at risk of hurting himslef. I guess this would be harder for a Staffy die to the strength and zie. He should be crated if possible, or placed in a safe area and monitored. Bees stings do not usually cause seizures. Plants can however but so can many other toxins and so can many other diseases. The dog needs to be taken to a Vet and have blood samples taken to test for a possible cause of the seizure. If no cause is found it is diagnosed as epilepsy and he will need to be medicated. Tell them that the dog must be kept cool when he is manic and during the seizure. He must also be kept in a safe area to prevent further harm. Edited to add - the frothing and drooling is a normal part of the seizure. Many dogs also lose control of their bladder and bowel too.

I think poppop was having a hiccup hiccup...

Thanks Rappie.

Thanks. You mentioned Rose gardens.... is it the same fungus that affects roses too?

Thanks Rappie. So can a 'ringworm' also pass from human to animal and how do you tell the difference btween those that can be tranferred from dog to human to human and those that can only go from dog to human?

Can I ask how you give this? ie powder/tablet form and do you buy glucosamine for humans or pets?

Wow, I never knew that. How interesting. Therefore there must be 2 different types??? Can anyone in the medical profession confirm.

From my knowledge, ringworm is contagious and can be spread from animals to humans and humans to humans. There isn't any difference between the ringworm that a dog has and the ringworm that humans have. It is simply a skin infection caused by a particular bacteria.

Pounds usually give a C3 if they vaccinate from my knowledge. Their main issue is with parvo, nothing else. KC doesn't generally kill so it isn't a big priorty. I can't see that there would be any issues with a duplication of the vaccination. I am sure that this is a very regular thing with rescues. The greater majority of rescues vaccinate the dogs that come in if they are not already vaccinated and I would think that some would possibly be already vaccinated and then we do them again not knowing of the original vaccination.

I agree with this statement. Has anyone ever asked the processors of 'pet mince' exactly what goes into it? There are more checks and controls on meat for human consumption and I would trust it any day over pet mince.

puggy, I don't want to argue on this, but what I was pointing out is that grains does not equate to carbs, not whether a dog should or should not be fed anything. It is a common misconception that only white grain food types contain carbohydrates when in fact many, many vegetables and fruits are also high sources of carbs. Your statement was: Carbs (rice, pasta etc) are not needed in a dogs diet. They are a major source of skin issues in dogs and some believe they are a source of cancer. So don't bother with the grains. which leads readers to think that a dog should not be fed carbs and that grains are carbs. Dogs still require carbs in their diet, but just like humans, they consume too much in general. As for barf, I have never subscribed to the feeding regime of Billinghurst so I guess it is all a matter of opinion on what to feed. ;) In my view, feeding a natural diet is preferred. Someone said a long time ago "The best food for your dog is the food your dog does best on."

'Grains' does not equate to 'carbs'. Beans are also high in carbohydrates, as are potatoes. Fruit is also another source of high carbohydrates.

It works easier for cats due to the hairs on their tongue which face towards the throat. If you place a tab at the back of the tongue it is difficult for a cat to bring it forward in it's mouth in order to spit it back out.

I have an epileptic that requires 4 tablets per day..but I could just hand them to him and he would eat them. I give them Sentinel every month too and they all just eat them from my hands. Having said that though, you need to make it a neccessary but rewarding process. Use whatever you can to entice them to swallow the tablet, be it hidden in food or given down the throat and then reward and praise. Give them somenthing even better as a reward. Think of something that your dog will die for. To get past the 'I know what you're going to do' I would buy something that smells devine, like a bbq'd chook. Give him/her a little bit of skin and some meat. Hand him/her some a few times and let them eat it, but jsut a tiny amount each time. Then walk away for 5 minutes. Come back and repeat. Walk away, then come back and give some with the tablet in it. When they eat it reward, reward, reward. Go over and above telling them how fabulously wonderful they are. Remove the negative, make it a positive.

I have a Pug that eats largish river pebbles. He also used to rattle but luckily they all made their way back out. You could tap his belly and hear them clicking together in side! We had to block off his access to the pebbles. It was the only way to prevent a possible tragedy.

Just copy and paste the text as you have done and then highlight the text you want in the quote and click on the button above that is like a speech balloon (when you are in the screen of writing your post). Aletrnatively, actually type the word 'quote' (without the ' ' marks) inside two square brackets at the beginning of the text you want quoted and do the same at the end of the text you want quoted but add a back slash before the word quote when your doing the one after the text.